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Don't forget that you can download a copy of Romeo And Juliet, starring David
Tennant as Prince Escalus, from BBC Radio 3 here.
Shakespeare's quick witted summer tragedy, recorded with the same company as Twelfth Night, his melancholic winter comedy, which was the first in this Drama on 3 Shakespeare and Love season. In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other, and love, and never let go.
The second of Drama on 3's season, featuring new productions of Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest, the first plays aired in the pan-BBC Shakespeare Unlocked celebration. The first two plays, which reflect upon Shakespeare and Love are performed by a single company of actors including David Tennant and Rosie Cavaliero both of whom won best actor and best actress at the recent Audio Drama Awards.

The first photos of David Tennant filming for his new drama, The Spies Of Warsaw, in Poland have been released. A news site based in the central Polish town of Lowicz has posted an article about filming and included the photos of David on horseback.

A translation of the accompanying text reads:
"Yesterday photography was completed in the Palace of the Radziwill in Nieborow on the spy drama entitled Spies Of Warsaw whose screenplay was based on a novel by Alan Furst.
The film is the first joint production between TVP and the BBC and, as declared by the film producers, the largest international co-production in the history of Polish television. The series writers are Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais who created, among others, the screenplay for ‘The Commitments’ by Alan Parker. The director of ‘Spies’ is Coky Giedroyc, maker of TV series ‘Holmes’ and ‘Oliver Twist’.
Filming of ‘The Spies Of Warsaw started of 11th April and is all taking place in Poland, mainly in Warsaw, but also i…

Romeo and Juliet, the second of the BBC's Shakespeare and Love plays, will air tonight on BBC Radio 3 at 8.30pm. David Tennant takes on the role of Prince Escalus.
The BBC are making a podcast of the play available to download after transmission. Click here to sign up to recieve the podcasts.The BBC Radio 3 blog also has a look at the making of the season which you can read here.

Shakespeare's quick witted summer tragedy, recorded with the same company as Twelfth Night, his melancholic winter comedy, which was the first in this Drama on 3 Shakespeare and Love season. In a town full of hatred, where the streets ring with the Capulet Montague feud, and swords are too easily drawn, Romeo and Juliet find each other, and love, and never let go.

David Tennant's latest film project, The Pirates! Band Of Misfits opens in cinemas across the USA and Canada today!
To get theatre and show times please visit the film's official site here.
David Tennant voices the character of the young Charles Darwin.

﻿ Directed by British animation legend and Aardman co-founder Peter Lord and based on Gideon Defoe’s cult novel series, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists is a delirious high-seas romp starring Hugh Grant as the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain, who navigates his salty crew on a perilous mission to Victorian London to aid a young Charles Darwin voiced by David Tennant.

David Tennant says: "What a joy to be part of that. You feel a little bit of a cheat to take any credit for it, but really the stars of this film are the animators. What they can make a piece of plasticine is quite remarkable.""The other day I did my last session on the film and they brought the little model of [my character] Da…

The Stage says:
"The play’s humour resides in the sub-plot which was here beefed up by David Tennant’s extraordinary performance as Malvolio, the punctilious servant who dreams of marriage to his employer, Olivia, which would make him a Count, hanging around in velvet lounge wear. This Malvolio was scarily sharp-tongued until, in a cruel joke, he received the letter purporting to be from Olivia, encouraging him to behave like a jackass, at which point his rasp turned into a squeak of astonishment and his simpering and smiling could be heard in his performance, all self-conscious sunshine and smirks."

The Guardian said:
"David Tennant's Malvolio was a particular delight in a version of the play that eschewed all gimmickry and instead simply showcased the brilliant language."

The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists has been scheduled for a DVD release on 24th September 2012.
The animated adventure will be released as a region 2 DVD, a standard Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray.

Directed by British animation legend and Aardman co-founder
Peter Lord and based on Gideon Defoe’s cult novel series, The Pirates! In An
Adventure With Scientists is a delirious high-seas romp starring Hugh Grant as
the luxuriantly bearded Pirate Captain, who navigates his salty crew on a
perilous mission to Victorian London to aid a young Charles Darwin voiced by
David Tennant.

David Tennant has stated that he has been involved with recording dialogue for some animated extras for the DVD release. Full details of extras is likely to follow shortly.

The Decoy Bride is now available for pre order in Australia. It's Region 4 release is on 11th July 2012. It can be pre ordered here.

After lovelorn Katie (Kelly MacDonald) is dumped at the altar, she returns home to her windswept Scottish island, thinking she will never walk down the aisle. Little does she know that Hollywood superstar Lara (Alice Eve) has chosen the island as the secret venue for her marriage to her gorgeous boyfriend James (Dr Who’s David Tennant).
But with the paparazzi hard on her tail, Lara needs to throw them off the scent. Katie agrees to dress in white and walk down the aisle as Lara’s ‘decoy bride’.
Wedding bells ring, love blooms, but who ends up happily ever after?

Take a look at the brand new ad from Virgin Media featuring David Tennant - and it's one that won't be seen on TV. In the internet-only ad, David promotes the Catch Up service that is available through Virgin's TiVo box as part of their new Collections bundles.

Watch the new clip here:

For more information about Virgin Media Collections, visit their website here

Don't forget that you can download a copy of Twelfth Night, starring David Tennant as Malvolio, from BBC Radio 3 here.

About the play:
A comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism as disguise and deceit
leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love in one of Shakespeare's
happiest plays. Orsino loves Olivia but she loves Cesario who really does love
Orsino for Cesario is actually Viola. But Malvolio believes his mistress Olivia
loves him as he is a victim of a trick played on him by those who would make him
mad. Shakespeare unravels a comic knot and fashions a masterpiece.

Today is the anniversary of what would have been William Shakespeare's 448th birthday, strangely it's also the anniversary of his death, 396 years ago.
Shakespeare has been responsible for some of David Tennant's finest performances, not only on stage, but in audio plays and on film too.
David made his Shakspeare debut with the Royal Shakespeare Company back in 1996 when he appeared in As You Like It as Touchstone.

A run in King Lear, as Edgar, followed at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 1999 as well as a reading of Edward III at Shakespeare's Globe.
In 2000 David returned to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play the title role of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy Of Errors.
2001 saw a one night only performance as Lysander / Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Barbican.
In 2008 David made his highly anticipated return to the stage with his critically acclaimed run of Hamlet in Stratford Upon Avon and London. The Guardia…

The Royal Shakespeare Company launches the World Shakespeare Festival today with a new sonnet specially commissioned from internationally-renowned playwright and RSC Writer in Residence Mark Ravenhill

The Royal Shakespeare Company launches the World Shakespeare Festival today with a new sonnet from Mark Ravenhill to mark Shakespeare's 448th birthday and celebrate his role as the world's playwright.
The World Shakespeare Festival is produced by the RSC for London 2012 Festival. It is the biggest Shakespeare festival ever staged and involves over 70 partners coming together to celebrate Shakespeare as the world's playwright, with more than 70 productions, plus events, exhibitions and broadcasts. One million tickets are available and the festival runs from today, 23 April, to November 2012.
Michael Boyd, Artistic Director, RSC said:
“We asked Mark to write a sonnet to mark this unprecedented collaboration. The RSC produced this Festival to celebrate Shakespeare as the world&…

Twelfth Night, the first of the BBC's Shakespeare and Love plays, will air tonight on BBC Radio 3 at 8.30pm. David Tennant takes on the role on Malvolio.
The BBC are making a podcast of the play available to download after transmission. Click here to sign up to recieve the podcasts.
The BBC Radio 3 blog also has a look at the making of the season which you can read here and David Tennant spoke to the Radio Times whilst recording Twelfth Night which you can read here.

A comedy of misrule and a trenchant attack on puritanism as disguise and deceit leads to misadventure, madness and mistaken love in one of Shakespeare's happiest plays. Orsino loves Olivia but she loves Cesario who really does love Orsino for Cesario is actually Viola. But Malvolio believes his mistress Olivia loves him as he is a victim of a trick played on him by those who would make him mad. Shakespeare unravels a comic knot and fashions a masterpiece.
Drama on 3 is featuring new productions of Twelfth Night, …

David Tennant will be co starring in a new BBC Radio 4 comedy series, Believe It!, alongside Richard Wilson and Arabella Weir.
The four part series will begin on 9th May 2012 at 11.30-12.00pm

The BBC Media Centre issued the following press release:
Based on glimmers of truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing and, most importantly, untrue celebrity radiography of Richard Wilson.
Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has always said he'd never write one. Richard, however, narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his fictional life story.
He plays a heavily exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester United - all true.
He’s a confidant of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for governments and fierce rivalry…

Featuring the tenth incarnation of the time travelling adventurer (as played by David Tennant on TV) Time Leech is a compilation of a three-part web comic originating on the www.Kasterborous.com Doctor Who news and reviews website.

Conceived and scripted by Christian Cawley and Brian Terranova with artwork by Justin Abbot, Rick Lundeen and Martin MacIntosh, Time Leech throws the Doctor together with a new companion, Ruth as he uncovers a terrible Dalek plot to overthrow humanity.

This compilation is being released as a non-profit project, with all proceeds being split 50-50 between the annual Children in Need event and the Association for International Cancer Research (AICR), of which David Tennant is patron. Wednesday, 18 April 2012 – Time Leech is the umbrella title for a series of comic strips from the Kasterborous.com website, collected here for the first time in print and ebook format for a limited time only to raise funds for Children in Need and AICR.

Twenty Twelve, the spoof documentary comedy series from the BBC, narrated by David Tennant, is to be shown on BBC America from June.

The series stars Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Olivia Colman and centres on the efforts of the Olympic Deliverence Committee to keep the London 2012 Olympic Games on budget and on track. More information on the series can be found on the BBC website (video clips may not play outside the UK)

There have been two series of Twenty Twelve so far, although the final three episodes of the second series have still to be filmed. It is expected that BBC America will show all thirteen 30-minute episodes.

The series premieres on BBC America from Saturday 30th June as part of the Ministry Of Laughs comedy block

David Tennant's romantic comedy The Decoy Bride will be available on Region 1 DVD and on Blu-ray in the USA and Canada from Tuesday 26th June. The film had a limited cinema release in the UK and UK in March and has been available as a Region 2 DVD since March 12th.

Film details

When the wedding of internationally famous film star Lara (Alice Eve, Men In Black III, Sex and the City 2) to English author James (David Tennant, Doctor Who) is sabotaged by a paparazzo, they decide to relocate the event to the remote Scottish island of Hegg. But the press will not be so easily shaken, and the couple has to take more drastic measures to ensure their privacy. Enter local girl Katie (Kelly MacDonald (Boardwalk Empire, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2), who's selected as a decoy bride to lure the press off the trail. But when Katie meets James, sparks fly, dresses get ruined and suddenly love gets complicated. Featuring an all-star cast, DECOY BRIDE is a charming romantic com…

The final episode of the current series of the David Tennant narrated spoof documentary Twenty Twelve airs on BBC Two tonight at 10pm.
In this episode Siobhan's team design a major sexual health campaign, complete with a rap song Get it On, which may upset the Catholic competitors.
You can watch a preview clip of the episode below:

The BBC are making David Tennant's recordings of two new productions of Shakespeare plays available to podcast.

David has recorded versions of Twelfth Night and Romeo And Juliet with a cast that includes Adam James, Rosie Cavaliero, Ron Cook and Vanessa Kirby. The two explorations of love form part of the Shakespeare Season that is a strand of the Cultural Olympiad on the BBC. David plays Malvolio in Twelfth Night and takes on the role of Prince Escalus in Romeo And Juliet. The plays will be available to download shortly after broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

A very, very Happy Birthday to the very talented and very lovely Mr David Tennant who is 41 years young this very day!

The son of a Presbyterian minister, David Tennant was brought
up in Bathgate, the post-industrial town between Edinburgh and Glasgow
immortalised in a song by his favorite band, The Proclaimers. He decided to be
an actor at a very young age (3 or 4) and was appearing on screen before he was
even out of school. He was first talent-spotted by Scottish TV at a Saturday
youth theatre club, an offshoot of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
where he later trained.After graduating, Tennant auditioned for the
groundbreaking political Scottish Theatre Group 7:84 and landed the role of Giri
the Hitman in their touring production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Uiith —
his first professional part. His second job, as King Arthur in an Edinburgh
production, got such a bad review it made him cry. However, things began to look
up when he landed a part in the a…

About The Minor Character: David Tennant stars as Will, an artist who observes life in minute detail. His dry commentary ranges from witty engagement to a casual erosive critique of his social set: the urban-suburban, middle-class landscape of his middle-aged friends.

Over a series of dinners, drinks and parties, we witness the shifting sands of friendship, marriage, love and lust, and the complexity and corruptness of London circles through Will's eyes. All the while, he entertains us with his reportage and offers us the privilege not only of his profound, inner thoughts, but also of an impartial, outward look into this microcosm of debauchery and selfishness.

As the clock cycles on, dreams are broken, relationships are ruined, misfortune strikes, and we, the spectators, are overwhelmed by the randomness and absurdity of life.But h…

David Tennant talks to the latest issue of the Radio Times (21-27 April 2012) about his new BBC Radio Three Radio Play Twelfth Night which is part of the BBC's Shakespeare Season.
David will be heard as Malvolio in the play which is broadcast on BBC Radio Three on Sunday 22nd April at 8.30pm.

The ongoing saga of the dispute between the BBC and Virgin Media over the unauthorised display of the Doctor Who logo and other BBC programmes on a recent advert has drawn to a close. Virgin have agreed to pull the advert, starring David Tennant and Sir Richard Branson, from TV and YouTube in a gesture of goodwill.

In the advert to promote Virgin's new Collections bundles and their TiVo service David is seen browsing through his own back catalogue. The original version featured the current Doctor Who logo quite prominently and also highlighted some of David's other work with the BBC, such as Casanova. It was thought that the problem had already been resolved when Virgin Media removed the Doctor Who logo last week. However, the BBC maintain that the advert still breaks their guidelines by giving the impression that the BBC are endorsing a third party service.

In a joint statement, the brands said: ‘Virgin Media has listened to concerns raised by BBC Worldwide about perceived c…

Get an early look at the brand new Illuminations Apple iPad app featuring David Tennant, courtesy of Methuen Drama, publishers of The Arden Shakespeare, one of the co-producers of the project.

David is one of a number of top actors who will be reading all of Shakespeare's Sonnets for the new app that will be released very soon. The readings will be accompanied by full Arden notes to give the best possible commentary on the poems.

The screencap released by Methuen shows David with Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

Earthflight, the wildlife documentary from John Downer Productions narrated by David Tennant has been nominated for a BAFTA craft award. Michael W. Richards, Richard Cook and Christian Moullec have been nominated in the Photography: Factual category for the Europe episode.

The full list of nominees in the category are:

Sean Bobbitt - Crack House (More4 / Wall To Wall)Michael W. Richards, Richard Cook, Christian Moullec - Earthflight: Europe (BBC One / John Downer ProductionsCamera Team - Frozen Planet: To The Ends Of The Earth (BBC One / A BBC / Discovery Channel / Antena 3 Television S.A. / ZDF / Skai / Open University co-production in association with Discovery Canada)Leo Maguire - Gypsy Blood: True Stories (Channel 4 / Clearstory) The winners will be announced at the Brewery in London on Sunday 13th May. Visit here for a full list of nominees for the BAFTA Craft Awards 2012

David Tennant is among an illustrious cast who will be reading Shakespeare's Sonnets for a new iPad app produced by arts media company Illuminations. Illuminations were, of course, the company behind the 2009 film of Hamlet, starring David and Sir Patrick Stewart.

The latest project, a co-production with Faber and Faber, Touch press and The Arden Shakespeare, features filmed recordings of all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets plus the Dedication from the 1609 quarto edition and includes full Arden notes on each sonnet. Actors involved include David Tennant, Fiona Shaw, Sir Patrick Stewart and Stephen Fry. At the moment the finishing touches are being put on the Apple iPad app which is expected to sell for about £9.99.

Read the full press release here:

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS TO FOLLOW THE WASTE LAND TO THE iPAD Faber and Faber, Touch Press, Illuminations and The Arden Shakespeare are delighted to announce that they are in the final stages of producing a spectacular edition of Shakespe…

Earthflight the nature documentary, narrated by David Tennant, takes a breathtaking flight on the wings of birds across six continents and experiences some of the world's greatest natural spectacles from a bird's-eye view is released on a region free Blu Ray today.

You can watch some clips from the series below:
Christian Moullec and family teach the vital skills the 3 week old goslings will need in life. Earthflight uses many different filming techniques to create the experience of flying with birds as they encounter some of the greatest natural events on the planet.

Specially designed Vulturecam with a pan & tilt camera unit allows 360 degree filming amongs the vultures in Africa. Earthflight uses many different filming techniques to create the experience of flying with birds as they encounter some of the greatest natural events on the planet.

A few weeks ago David recorded three new children's stories for Macmillan Books.
The second of these to be released is Jack and The Flumflum Tree by Julia Donaldson which
will be released in a book and CD pack on 13th September 2012.You can pre order it from our shop here.

About the book:Jack’s Granny is sick with a bad case of the moozles! And the only cure is the
fruit of the fantastic flumflum tree which grows on the faraway Isle of
Blowyernose. It’s a perilous journey, but Jack bravely sets sail, with a motley
crew of only three -- and a large patchwork sack that Granny has filled with an
odd assortment of items from chewing-gum to tent pegs. But what use will they be
against hungry sharks, a leaky boat and a thieving monkey? Follow Jack across
the ocean in this irresistible story from the creators of TYRANNOSAURUS DRIP and
THE TROLL.

The other titles David has recorded are Wolf Won't Bite! by Emily
Gravett and The Rhyming Rabbit also by Julia Donaldson.The Rhymi…

David Tennant, who has played Hamlet on stage and screen, is part of an exciting new programme for Sky Arts called Discovering Hamlet.
Discovering Hamlet will air tonight at 9.40pm on Sky Arts 2 HD.
Sky Arts say:
Playing the Prince of Denmark is said to be like climbing Mount Everest, calling on brilliance, great stamina and huge vocal resources from the performer. And, like a giant theatrical magnet, the play and its title character have enticed top directors and actors from around the world to bring the drama to life for more than 400 years.

Hamlet is possibly one of the most interpreted roles in theatre history. Through some of William Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquies we watch a man stricken with grief, disgust, and anger battle with his inner demons. But his inaction for revenge is seen as both cunning and cowardly; his madness both genuine and part of a clever plan. So who is Hamlet? And why does the famously introspective character attract such keen attention in the arts …

The crown worn by David Tennant in his critically acclaimed run as Hamlet with The Royal Shakespeare Company could be yours to hire for just £20 a day!
The piece of theatrical history is up for rent by the company.

And it’s not the only prop that you can hire from them.
The RSC has 30,000 costumes used on stage over half a century which are now available to the public. There’s an Elizabethan-style dress with braided bodice worn by Glenda Jackson when she joined the company in 1964 and a pair of boots worn by Kenneth Branagh.
The costumes were previously only hired to other acting organisations.
But it seems there are some rather more unusal requests with one man asking if he could rent out David's unwashed socks! Nasty!

When the wedding of American film star
Lara Tyler (ALICE EVE - Men in Black 3, Sex and the City 2) to tweedy English
author James Arber (DAVID TENNANT -- Doctor Who, Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire) is sabotaged by a paparazzo, they decide to relocate the event to the one
place where the world's press won't find them: the sleepy Scottish Island of
Hegg.

However, dilapidated buildings and greedy islanders are the least
of the problems that the wedding party and their Hollywood entourage have to
deal with, as Marco (FEDERICO CASTELLUCCIO -- The Sopranos) the ingenious
paparazzo tracks them down in his mission to photograph the celebrity wedding of
the year. To throw Marco off the scent, Lara's P.A Steve Korbitz (MICHAEL URIE
-- Ugly Betty, Beverly Hills Chihuahua) and his assistant Emma (SALLY PHILLIPS
-- Bridget Jones' Diary, Smack the Pony) devise a plan to use a decoy bride and
thi…

We're very pleased to announce the winner of our competition to design the cover of David's birthday book is Tess Fowler, you can see her amazing winning design above!
Well done Tess! A Fright Night DVD will be winging it's way to you.

Thank you to everyone who entered, all your designs were great and they have all been included in the book.

Another of David's film projects has a release date; Postman Pat: The Movie - You Know You're The One is scheduled for a UK cinema release on 24th May 2013, Classic Media confirms.
They have teamed up with Icon Film Distribution, Lionsgate UK and RGH Entertainment - the animation development and production unit of Rubicon Group Holding.

What's it about?
What happens when Light meets Dark? When kindness meets selfishness? When local
fame meets global notoriety? A nice cup of tea is kicked aside by a
frappacappucino? Everyone’s favourite postie, Postman Pat, comes face to face
with the dark side of the fame dream when he enters a national TV talent show
and the demons of money, status and a new shiny suit conspire to tear Pat away
from his friends, family and the small home town which loves him.In a new
fully 3-D, stop frame animated movie – for 3-8 year olds and their families –
the much adored children’s TV icon, Postman Pat hits the big screen for the
first time a…

Series two of the British Comedy Award-winning comedy Twenty Twelve, the spoof documentary narrated by David Tennant ,continues tonight at 10pm on BBC Two with the third episode of its four-part series. Written and directed by John Morton (People Like Us), Twenty Twelve sees the return of Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey), Jessica Hynes (Spaced), Olivia Colman (Rev), Amelia Bullmore (Ashes To Ashes), Karl Theobald (Green Wing) and Vincent Franklin (The Thick Of It), who are joined this series by two new characters, played by Samuel Barnett (Beautiful People) and Morven Christie (Monday Monday). Together they form the Olympic Deliverance team, paddling hard below the waterline to keep the London 2012 Olympics on track and on budget.
In Episode 3:
A decision must be made about the future of the Olympic Stadium, and Clarence House has asked the ODC to look at ways of linking the Twenty Twelve Olympics with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - is 'Jubilympics' the perfect branding …

If you missed out on seeing David Tennant in The Minor Character on Sky Arts last night then fear not as there's a couple of chances to catch up with the drama when it's repeated on the channel on the following dates:
Saturday 14th April at 10pm on Sky Arts 1
Monday 16th April at 12.20am on Sky Arts 1 and HD

If you're outside the UK or not lucky enough to have access to Sky Arts then you can watch it below. Thanks to @Hamsterfur

David's latest drama project, The Minor Character aired last night on Sky Arts last night.

David Tennant starred as Will, an artist who observes life in minute detail.
His dry commentary ranges from witty engagement to a casual erosive critique of
his social set: the urban-suburban, middle-class landscape of his middle-aged
friends.
Over a series of dinners, drinks and parties, we witness the
shifting sands of friendship, marriage, love and lust, and the complexity and
corruptness of London circles through Will's eyes. All the while, he entertains
us with his reportage and offers us the privilege not only of his profound,
inner thoughts, but also of an impartial, outward look into this microcosm of
debauchery and selfishness.
As the clock cycles on, dreams are broken,
relationships are ruined, misfortune strikes, and we, the spectators, are
overwhelmed by the randomness and absurdity of life.

But how does Will stand in all of this?
Though he
fends off sexual improp…